Bantry hotels snapped up as Wild Atlantic Way changes the pace

Is the Wild Atlantic Way holding sway over Bantry town, lifting its hotels before it? The selling agents of the Maritime Hotel, developed at a reported cost of €30m and now offered at just €1.5m, expect so, such is the pace of change on the West Cork town’s accommodation front.

The Westlodge Hotel is now in new ownership after a change of hands in recent weeks; the Bantry Bay Hotel is set to re-open after two years closure, and the proposed sale of the four-star Maritime Hotel, Murnane and O’Shea’s town centrepiece, managed by the Gleneagles Group from Killarney and likely to be among its bidders, is set to make waves.

First change of hands is the famed Bantry Bay Hotel, which was owned for decades by the O’Callaghan family.